Telcos market shift as Airtel gains voice traffic, Safaricom drops

Customers are served outside an Airtel shop in Mombasa. PHOTO | kevin odit | NMG

Telecoms operator Airtel picked up more subscribers and won a bigger share of the mobile voice market in the last quarter of 2017, in a significant push against market leader Safaricom’s #ticker:SCOM dominance.

Industry data released by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows that Airtel’s share of the voice traffic swelled to 22 per cent, up from 13.5 per cent in a similar period the previous year, making it the biggest gainer of the market shift.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.